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Friday, August 01, 2003

Wow, New Hampshire really is lame

I love the state to pieces. Pieces of granite I suppose. When you go to school in a state in which the governor appoints "Old Man of the Mountain Revitalization Task Force," you know it's a happening place.

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Posted by alex at 2:34 PM (0 comments)

Thursday, July 31, 2003

The D keeps me guessing...

Yesterday I read a review in the D of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and I was dumbfounded by it, until I realized it was by Joe Rago. Today I read Ms. Keshava's piece, and I was dumbfounded to find that it was not another of Joe's scalding spoofs.

Who admits these kids? My favorite line was "the image that my mind instantly conjures up is that of a young corporate recruit rapidly making his or her way towards Wall Street"--but I invite my fellow Dartloggers to submit their own selections.

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Posted by Stefan Beck at 11:39 PM (0 comments)

The Virtue of Prosperity

Ms. Keshava ought to read Dinesh D'Souza's book, The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno-Affluence.

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Posted by alex at 12:46 PM (0 comments)

Our own Joe Rago '05 on 'branding'

He tells it like it is.

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Posted by alex at 12:44 PM (0 comments)

Wednesday, July 30, 2003

File Under "Oy Vey"

The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education features an article about Dartmouth's Jewish Sound Archive, "an encyclopedia of all Jewish sound." The archive includes Jewish speeches, songs, sayings, expressions, dialects, jokes, etc.

The archive is accessible online for Dartmouth students and faculty, and those who request permission (copyright, you know). However, since we alums have access to the Dartmouth library network, we should be able to access this too. Right? I tried logging in with my Blitz info, but that doesn't do the trick.

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Posted by Emmett at 4:55 PM (0 comments)

I am pro-campus-expansion...

...at Columbia, at least.

This plan sounds appropriate, prudent and lovely.

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Posted by alex at 10:02 AM (0 comments)

The Dartmouth Brand

I've long discussed the notion of a Dartmouth brand in the context of the school being unique, sticking to its guns and what has made it great, lest the old traditions fail, etc.

A school need not be all things to all people. It's okay to be small, rural, liberal arts and undergraduate-oriented.

But I'm very concerned that beyond Mr. Reidy there is a tendency for counterproductive overcompensation. I don't want to be a school with a complex, a la Tufts.

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Posted by alex at 9:56 AM (0 comments)

Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Brent C. Reidy '05 at it again

You may remember this guy talking about building the Dartmouth "brand."

Seems he still is suffering from low self-esteem about his college choice. He has started a blitz group devoted to spreading news about Dartmouth and its alums - he uses the Kobe Bryant prosecutor as a chief example.

All I can say is wow.

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Posted by Ben at 6:54 PM (0 comments)

Heh

No amnesty for Amnesty. Hold your applause, please!

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Posted by Emmett at 11:00 AM (0 comments)

Sunday, July 27, 2003

Re: Oh Wow

I have a question. What the HELL is "South S.C."? Do we now have 3 Carolinas? A North Carolina, a North South Carolina, and a South South Carolina (South S.C.)? Scholer, what's going on down there?

Or was my original theory correct and liberals are a bunch of morons who can neither ascertain nor verify any factitudinal information?

Q: What rhymes with element number 5?

My being obnoxious aside, what is going on here? How is it remotely *possible* for an organization such as UC Berkeley, which is sanctioned by the State of California, which in turn is sanctioned by the federal government, to allow such a thing to be published?

Have we abandoned all pretenses of professionalism? I mean, maybe we should all just give up.

(Yes, I'm aware that factitudinal isn't a word.)

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Posted by Nilanjan at 11:26 PM (0 comments)

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